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Qualcomm just revealed its shiny new mobile processor at the Snapdragon Summit, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first smartphone chip to feature the company's Oryon CPU architecture, which debuted earlier this year in the Snapdragon X Elite laptop processor. Qualcomm says it rearchitected Oryon...
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Even within the niche of PC-based gaming handhelds, there are quite a few systems to choose from. We've written about them a lot, and reviewed a few. If you're trying to sell such a device, you might try to add extra features above and beyond what the competition offers, like the GPD Duo that comes with dual OLED...
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Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit is currently underway in sunny Hawaii, and the chipmaker is hitting hard right out of the gate. The company is best-known for its Snapdragon SoCs in smartphones and tablets, and the latest iteration promises to be the fastest and most efficient yet. The Snapdragon 8 Elite bursts...
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Apple appears to be readying its latest iteration of the iPhone SE, which has served as the least expensive entry into the iPhone ecosystem for a few generations. The company has long been able to keep the price of iPhone SE down by reusing the design of the iPhone 8, while only meaningfully upgrading the internal...
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It appears as if the Nintendo Wii U is a hardware failure waiting to happen, which is less than ideal now that Nintendo no longer repairs the console for customers. According to information posted on X by the Retro Blast account, the console is starting to die on owners. To avoid this fate, it’s recommended that...
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As far as automotive nameplates go, Porsche's 911 GT3 has a 25-year history of humbling the competition (be it road or track) and offering some of the best driving thrills available for the money. To celebrate 25 years of history, the 2025 911 GT3 will drop next summer with a much higher price and two variants...
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At some point, Valve is going to release a Steam Deck 2 (even if it ends up being called something different). And when it does arrive, it could sport some notable upgrades, including variable refresh rate (VRR) support and longer batter life, compared to the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED. That said, don't expect...
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Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition has finally broken cover with the Korean electronics company revealing that it's the thinnest and lightest Z Fold ever at 10.6 millimeters and 236 grams, respectively. It will also come with a 200-megapixel wide-angle camera versus a 50MP unit on the standard Fold 6. For now...
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While SpaceX Starship’s major milestone of Mechzilla successfully catching a Super Heavy booster garnered most of the attention following the spacecraft’s fifth test flight, the space agency’s nighttime ocean splashdown of its Starship was also an impressive sight to watch.
SpaceX called the fifth test flight of...
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Graphics cards have taken on an incredibly important role in the world, with AI leading the front of human technological progress. Gaming has also blossomed into a mammoth industry, leading to demand for gaming GPUs to skyrocket during the last several releases. Nothing is as exciting as the prospect of a new NVIDIA...
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PC enthusiasts have a weird problem with overly-relativistic thinking. Case in point: AMD's newish Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 desktop processors. It's fair to say that they were disappointing given their relatively modest performance gains in typical client desktop tasks over the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 CPUs. However, that doesn't...
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Apple is hyping the heck out if its upcoming Apple Intelligence features that are headed to compatible devices, including the recently-launched iPhone 16 lineup (see our iPhone 16 Pro review) and the previous generation iPhone 15 series, both of which have the requisite hardware to power Apple's "AI" features. While...
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We all know it's only a matter of time before AMD gets around to giving its Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors the 3D V-cache treatment. For anyone who needs proof, just look at the mountain of leaks of rumors, the latest of which comes from multiple sources—a motherboard maker and at least two retail store listings...
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Perplexity is confident that it can change the way research is conducted in financial markets, due in part to its latest AI-enhanced toolset. The company has added new features that it believes can make its AI services the go-to tool used by finance professionals. With the aim of helping these professionals make...
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Google is making its NotebookLM tool, which is powered by Gemini AI 1.5, an even more powerful tool for understanding information as the company removes its “experimental” label. Along with being considered a full-fledged product ready to be used by a wider audience, NotebookLM is also getting upgraded with some...
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If you're a gamer, then Warframe is a title that probably needs no introduction—even if you might have mixed feelings about it. An ambitious title that blended genres even when it released back in March 2013, Warframe has morphed and transformed numerous times over the last eleven-plus years to the point that the...
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Intel kicked off the Arrow Lake party with a mix of "K" (unlocked multiplier) and "KF" (unlocked multiplier + disabled onboard graphics) models, and namely the Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 7 265K and 265KF, and Core Ultra 5 245K and 245KF. Eventually we will seen non-K models make a debut, evidence of which can be...
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OpenAI is finally releasing a ChatGPT app for Windows, after making it available on macOS earlier this year. The company posted an announcement on the social media platform X, where it says that it’s now available to download from the Microsoft store for “ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, Team, and Edu users.” Free users will...
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In a surprising move, YouTube is now testing YouTube Premium Lite subscriptions in select territories, after retiring the plan a year ago and focusing on improving YouTube Premium. Users in Australia, Germany, and Thailand are currently able to sign up for the plan for a few months now, although Google declined to...
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The early rumors concerning the naming convention of AMD's upcoming mobile processors appears to be true. We already suspected this, but things took a turn when the company revealed the final name of its "Strix Point" SoCs earlier this year: the Ryzen AI 300 family, headed up by the flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX...
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Shawn Layden, formerly a chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, shared that the console business can’t continue to just compete based on specs during a fireside chat at Gamescom Asia. According to Layden, “we’re fighting over teraflops and that’s no place to be. We need to compete on content...
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Rivian is bringing back a fun, spooky software update that will help owners get into the Halloween spirit, similar to what some online game developers have done lately. Rivian's update will include several ghastly features to change the vibes of both the interior and exterior of its compatible vehicles. The most...
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